Photo of 10-year reunion Of Distracted Boyfriend meme goes viral By Emma Mullan Image via Shutterstock A photo posted to Twitter claiming to show the reunion of the people who feature in the famous Distracted Boyfriend meme has gone viral.
The photo, posted by John O Connell on Twitter shows three people mimicking the actions of what became one of the most famous memes of all time.
He labelled the photo: The actual people from THAT meme, 10 years on.
The post immediately went viral and at the time of writing has 1.4 million likes and almost a quarter of a million retweets.
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Memes – pronounced meems, not me-mes, because you’d be surprised how many people still don’t know that – are one of those global cultural touchstones that have become synonymous with the internet.
Pre-world wide web, it used to be global events that united us, such as the 650 million people who watched the 1969 Moon landing, or the 750 million who came together to watch Prince Charles and Diana’s 1981 wedding. But these days, with the dissemination of content across too many platforms to count, it’s unlikely the world will ever collectively come together in the same way to witness history in the making.
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To get everyone up to speed, sea chanteys are the smiling woman in the Distracted Boyfriend meme they pull your attention away no matter what should be occupying your time. Originating on merchant marine ships in the 19th century, the songs meant to help sailors through their tasks started taking off on TikTok after a 26-year-old Scottish postman named Nathan Evans posted a video of himself singing a song called “Soon May the Wellerman Come” (sometimes just titled “Wellerman”) in the last week of 2020. It’s been duetted thousands of times since and has become an online obsession. (If you have not yet scrolled r/seashanties you really ought to.)